Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew: On Abusive Influence on the Language of Science by Political Leadership

Lars Engelmann

doi:10.17879/satura-2018-2957

Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew

On Abusive Influence on the Language of Science by Political Leadership

Authors

Lars Engelmann

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-2957

Abstract

On March 3, 1942 Adolf Hitler read a newspaper article in the Berliner Morgenpost which agitated him. He ordered Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Party’s head office, one of Hitler’s most trusted deputies and unofficially the second most powerful man in Germany at the time, to write the following letter to the chief of the Reich Chancellery Hans Lammers...

Author Biography

Lars Engelmann

Lars Engelmann is currently studying English and German in the joint BA degree at WWU Münster with a focus on spoken language and the prospect of studying Applied Linguistics in the near future. He has an academic background in biology and is interested in a wide range of topics including psychology, the philosophy and sociology of science, scientific myths and historical anecdotes. The interdisciplinary research presented in this essay is a result of the course “Introduction to the Sociology of Science” in Winter 2017/2018. Lars Engelmann is the founder of famoseworte.de and former head writer of the 2016 Grimme Online Award nominee Puerto Patida.

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Published

2020-08-17

How to Cite

Engelmann, L. (2020). Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew: On Abusive Influence on the Language of Science by Political Leadership. Satura, 1, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-2957